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The word trattoria is cognate with the French term traiteur [3] (a caterer providing takeaway food). Derived in Italian from trarre, meaning 'to treat' (from the Latin tractare / trahere, 'to draw'), [4] its etymology has also been linked to the Latin term littera tractoria, which referred to a letter ordering provision of food and drink for officials traveling on the business of the Holy ...
Tourists and restaurant terrace in the Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Italy. Items portrayed in this file depicts. creator. some value.
Sacristy of Santo Spirito, Florence: 1488–1497: Giuliano da Sangallo and Salvi d'Andrea: Loggia di San Paolo: 1489–1496: Leon Battista Alberti: Palazzo Strozzi: 1489–1534: Giuliano da Sangallo, Cronaca and others: Palazzo Gondi: 1490–1501: Giuliano da Sangallo
Palazzo Strozzi is an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, [5] inspired by the Palazzo Medici, but with more harmonious proportions.Unlike the Medici Palace, which was sited on a corner lot, and thus has only two sides, this building, surrounded on all four sides by streets, is a free-standing structure.
The 14th-century Palazzo Vecchio is still preeminent with its crenellated tower. The square is also shared with the Loggia della Signoria, the Uffizi Gallery, the Palace of the Tribunale della Mercanzia (1359) (now the Bureau of Agriculture), and the Palazzo Uguccioni (1550, with a facade attributed to Raphael, who however died thirty years before its construction).
Piazza del Duomo: Piazza del Duomo is located in the heart of the historic centre of Florence.It is one of the most visited places in Europe and the world; here are the Florence Cathedral with the Cupola del Brunelleschi, the Giotto's Campanile, the Florence Baptistry, the Loggia del Bigallo, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, and the Arcivescovile and Canonici's palace.
Enoteca Pinchiorri is an Italian restaurant in Florence, Italy. The owners are Giorgio Pinchiorri and French-born Annie Féolde. The chefs are Annie Féolde, Italo Bassi and Riccardo Monco. In 2008, the restaurant was voted 32nd best in the world by the British Restaurant magazine. [1]
The piazza was designed by the architect Giuseppe Poggi when Florence became briefly the Capital of Kingdom of Italy; in 1876, it was named in honour of Cesare Bonesana marchese di Beccaria. This place originally was called Piazza alla Croce due to the Porta alla Croce, still present, the former gate of the medieval walls. A number of concave ...